Poggio Picenze多龄社区中心丨意大利

Multi aged community center

location

Poggio Picenze, L’Aquila

type

interior design, graphic design, new construction, outdoor spaces design

area

229 sqm (interior), 57 sqm (outdoor), 2882 sqm (garden)

state

completed

date

2011 – 2015

client

Associazione Nazionale Italiana Cantanti, Comune di Poggio Picenze, La Provincia di Como, Sondrio, Lecco e Varese, un Salvadanaio per l’Abruzzo

team

Elisa Burnazzi

graphic design

Elisa Burnazzi, Mattia Micheletti

photos

Carlo Baroni, Roberta Pizzi

videos

AbruzzoWeb

Multi aged community center: quiet determination

When it was asked to our architecture studio in Trento to design the architecture and interior design of a post-earthquake center in Abruzzo, we designed not only with our head, but also with our heart. This building, which has been open to the public since its inauguration, has been financed with private funds, donations from Italian readers and money raised with a football match “Partita del Cuore” played by Nazionale Cantanti. To honour the courage and the teamwork of all the actors involved, clients, financiers, architects, companies, when The Architectural Review published it, they entitled the article: “Quiet determination”.

Multy aged community centre: a dream to realize

The new Poggio Picenze multi-aged community centre was born to, located in the historical centre and made unusable by the earthquake of April 6, 2009. To the Administration’s appeal have promptly responded different realities including the Associazione Nazionale Cantanti, the group La Provincia Editoriale and the Salvadanaio per l’Abruzzo, while the construction company, the supplier firms and the designers are working reducing the fees.

Multy aged community centre: our project, between architecture, interior design, outdoor spaces design, graphic design and construction.

After a first draft of the project, which included the location of the building in the place of the concrete pitch of the city park, in 2011 the city council has situated the community center in a neighboring sports area near the entrance, that is replacing the earthquake logistics coordination camp.

The design intent of the new complex is to revise the work the “Grande Cretto” Burri, performed in Gibellina between 1985 and 1989, following the earthquake of Belice (1968) and realized ​​in white concrete. The new center aggregation retains many characteristics of the previous project, but also conveying new ones. To the desire to build a building

connected to the landscape of Abruzzo has been added the value of memory. In 2011, two years having passed after the earthquake, a period in which the Italian civil society has gradually forgotten what happened in Abruzzo, the zig-zag volumes want to somehow evoke ideas of cracks, in remembrance of the earthquake occurred. At the same time, as the building is covered in wood and in green, the project aims at giving a positive value to nature, inspiring in its users a renewed confidence in it and man; kids and the elderly join together in a building integrated in the green, receiving the chance to have new hope in the future. The roof is covered with grass plots, and green are also the facades thanks to a series of colored wires on which some vines climb, which are expected to be taken care of by the Centre’s users.

The Community center is capable of hosting about 130 people from both the town of Poggio Picenze and from the neighboring villages. The Center is built on one level only and covers about 240 square meters net internal: there are the entrance hall, two multipurpose rooms, the library with Internet stations, one music room, and, besides, services, a store room and both open and covered spaces. Externally, the walls are coated with natural larch wood, wood that has been used for doors and windows. The main closed volume is sided by two other open buildings for parking four-wheeled and two-wheeled vehicles, made ​​of steel structures, larch wood-paneled, also covered in colored wires to support vines.

Publications

2023

ARCHALP Politecnico di Torino Italia

2022

ARCHITETTE ITALIANE Ordine degli Architetti O.A.P.P.C della provincia di Teramo Italia

2019

ABRUZZO. UNA REGIONE IN CAMMINO FRA MEMORIA E FUTURO Carsa Edizioni Italia

2018

Il Resto del Carlino Rimini Poligrafici Editoriale Italia

Riabitare l’Italia Progetti Donzelli Italia

I Small Building 3 Archiworld Corea del Sud

Archiworld Archiworld Corea del Sud

Domus Quodlibet Italia

Arcipelago Italia. Padiglione Italia alla Biennale Architettura 2018 Quodlibet Italia

2017

Yearbook 1 (T1) (Selezione di Architetti italiani partecipanti all’edizione 2016 del Premio Architetto italiano e Giovane talento dell’architettura) LetteraVentidue, CNAPPC Italia

Destination Architecture (The essential guide to 1000 contemporary buildings) Phaidon Regno Unito

Arketipo Tecniche Nuove Italia

Abitare RCS MediaGroup Italia

DI Architecture & Design – Shangai Magazine CCTP Cina

2016

German Design Award Catalogue German Design Council Germania

Holz-Zentralblatt DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner Germania

Iconic Awards Catalogue German Design Council Germania

La Provincia Sesaab Italia

Corriere del Trentino RCS MediaGroup Italia

Corriere del Trentino RCS MediaGroup Italia

Vallkommen Till Framtiden Virserums Art Museum Svezia

The Architectural Review EMAP Publishing Limited Gran Bretagna

Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture Elisa Burnazzi – Burnazzi Feltrin Architects The Architectural Review Gran Bretagna

Corriere del Trentino RCS MediaGroup Italia

2015

Premium Edizioni Inmagazine Italia

AbbruzzoWeb Enfasi Italia

Corriere del Trentino RCS MediaGroup Italia

La Provincia Sesaab Italia

2013

La ricostruzione dopo la catastrofe da spazio attesa a spazio pubblico INU Edizioni Italia

Awards

2018

Premi In/Architettura 2020 InArch e Ance con Archilovers Italia

Ad’A, Architetture dell’Adriatico Agenzia per l’Architettura d’Abruzzo e CARSA the thinking company Italia

2018

16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia, Arcipelago Italia MiBACT e Mario Cucinella Italia

2017

German Design Award German Design Council Germania

2016

Build Architecture Awards Build Regno Unito

Iconic Awards German Design Council Germania

World Architecture Festival Award EMAP Regno Unito

Architecture of Necessity Virserum Art Museum Svezia

Events

2020

Premi In/Architettura 2020 InArch e Ance con Archilovers Web

2018

16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia, Arcipelago Italia

MiBact e Mario Cuccinella Padiglione Italia all’Arsenale, Venezia, Italia 2017

Centro di aggregazione giovani e anziani

Prof. Giuseppe Scaglione, Università degli studi di Trento

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Meccanica, Trento, Italia

German Design Award German Design Council Musem Angewandte Kunst, Francoforte sul Meno, Germania

German Design Award German Design Council Forum of the Frankfurt Exhibition Grounds, Francoforte sul Meno, Germania 2016

Architecture of Necessity Fiera Io Casa e Ordine degli Architetti PPC della Provincia di Trento Quartiere Fieristico, Riva del Garda, Italia

World Architecture Festival EMAP Publishing Limited Arena Berlin, Berlino, Germania

Iconic Awards German Design Council BMW Welt, Monaco di Baviera, Germania

Architecture of Necessity Virserum Konsthall Virserum, Svezia 2015

Inaugurazione del Centro “Alena Ajrulai, Loris Cialfi e Valbona Osmani” La Provincia, Associazione Nazionale Italiana Cantanti, Comune di Poggio Picenze Centro di aggregazione sociale per giovani e anziani, Poggio Picenze, Italia 2013

La ricostruzione dopo la catastrofe: da spazio in attesa a spazio pubblico Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico Facoltà di Architettura Roma Tre, Roma, Italia